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Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a...

What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated,...

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the...

Becoming An Artwork (Theory Redux)Author: GROYS.Publisher: PolityPublication Date: Dec 12, 2022Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509551972ISBN-13: 97815095519

Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of...

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global...

Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right, and the bigotry of the old elites...

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly...

The Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellectual, world renowned for her work in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She has long maintained...

China?s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book,...

Conspiracy theories are neither delusions nor lies, neither simplistic fallacies nor psychological quirks: rather, they are a political problem. They are not so much about truth as about power...

9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by...

?We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.? So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940...

Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their...

What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but should...

This book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social...

What do cinematic ?universes,? cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They?re in the business of foreverizing ? the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or...

Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the...

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in ?earthly things? and pay...

Israel (Polity Histories)Author: Alan DowtyPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Sep 07, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509536906ISBN-13: 9781509536900

As a heat wave hits Paris, the author?s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. He can?t sleep because of the...

Late Capitalist FascismAuthor: Mikkel Bolt RasmussenPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509547444ISBN-13: 9781509

Letter To D: A Love StoryAuthor: Andre GorzPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 150954397XISBN-13: 9781509543977

Indigenous thinker and leader Ailton Krenak exposes the destructive tendencies of our ?civilization?: rampant consumerism, environmental devastation and a narrow and restricted understanding of...

From TV bulletins to social media newsfeeds, the media plays a massive role in shaping the world as we see it. In fact, different media have helped make possible our world of independent nations,...

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, many people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. In Verona, neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; across the world, people participated...

This book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires...

Neither our current regime of individual property rights, nor rigid state ownership, have proven very effective in producing prosperous, just, environmentally flourishing societies. But what if there...